Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xii

Notes on Contributors

pp xiii-xvi

1 - Introduction

pp 1-14

Part One - Knowledge and Reception

pp 15-16

2 - Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver’s Museum

pp 17-41

3 - ‘Useful’ Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment

pp 42-69

4 - Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History

pp 70-105

5 - The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China

pp 106-130

6 - An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library

pp 131-152

Part Two - Images and News

pp 153-154

7 - Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England

pp 155-174

8 - From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century

pp 175-197

9 - The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles

pp 198-216

10 - Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean

pp 217-240

Part Three - Multiple Diffusions

pp 241-242

11 - Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d’Herbelot’s Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions

pp 243-268

12 - The Diffusion of the Qur’an in Private Libraries, 1665–1830

pp 269-292

13 - The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar

pp 293-320

14 - Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China

pp 321-364

15 - Conclusion

pp 365-381

Select Bibliography

pp 382-393

Index

pp 394-409